In today's farm share: 3 pounds of beets. Add that to the beets I already had and I really needed to can some beets. They take up way too much room in the fridge!
Since I have a bunch of pickled beets, I thought I'd try pressure canning them. I used the standard recipe from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving and had 4 quarts' worth. But one of the jars cracked in the canner, which was an unpleasant surprise. It cleaned up surprisingly quickly, and since the jar broke cleanly I was able to salvage the beets and put them in the fridge to eat now. I think I know what happened, too. I ran out of boiling water when I was filling the jars and, in the time it took for me to boil more, the bulk of the jar cooled too much. Then, when I put it in the canner, the water it went into was too hot and so the jar cracked along the base. The bottom of the jar just split right off!
Since I have a bunch of pickled beets, I thought I'd try pressure canning them. I used the standard recipe from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving and had 4 quarts' worth. But one of the jars cracked in the canner, which was an unpleasant surprise. It cleaned up surprisingly quickly, and since the jar broke cleanly I was able to salvage the beets and put them in the fridge to eat now. I think I know what happened, too. I ran out of boiling water when I was filling the jars and, in the time it took for me to boil more, the bulk of the jar cooled too much. Then, when I put it in the canner, the water it went into was too hot and so the jar cracked along the base. The bottom of the jar just split right off!
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